If Richard Ford hadn't become a writer, he'd have made a damned good Realtor.
Those who've read his Frank Bascombe novels ("The Sportwriter," "Independence Day," "The Lay of the Land") often marvel at just how well Ford knows the territory.
"I've lived all over the country and in all those many places," says the Pulitzer Prize winner and former Princeton, NJ, resident, who now divides his time between Harlem, New Orleans and Maine. "I was forever interested in houses — in renting and buying and building and looking at them, [and] spent teeming hours in Realtors' cars."
He'll discuss his new collection of Bascombe stories, "Let Me Be Frank with You," with Lorrie Moore Feb. 12 at the 92nd Street Y.
Here's what's in his library:
The Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson
I know . . . the Civil War. You read about it when you were a teenager. Where I went to high school, in Mississippi, we were taught the South won. But we'll never understand the enigma of race relations until we understand the nasty, insane "conflict" between the North and the South. And it ain't over yet.
Bark by Lorrie Moore
A brief collection of stories by the incomparable Ms. Moore. She's a vivid anatomist and verbal virtuoso of our discomforts-in-life: unwelcome aging, unwholesome marriage, unwanted tough love, all set to the tune of her luminous, uncanny wit. This is her first collection since "Birds of America." It's a gift to her longtime readers. Me, included.
Against the Country by Ben Metcalf
You gotta like any novel that can seriously call Daniel Boone and James Fenimore Cooper "realtors." Metcalf's first novel is really a memoir about how hateful it was for his hippie parents to wrench him out of the city and into the grim hinterlands of Virginia. It's funny, smart and new to my ears.
Experience by Martin Amis
Amis tops the list of contemporary sentence-makers, uncanny wits and writers who're smart on the page. "Experience," his rich memoir of growing up a famous writer's son amidst the tumult of England in the '50s and '60s and on, is a thrilling testimony of how you survive and thrive as a writer and human. Love, not surprisingly, plays the biggest part.
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